Title: Anaheim Public Library photograph collection on Anaheim local history,

Date (inclusive): 1860-1970

Date (bulk): (bulk 1860-1923)

Collection number: Consult repository

Creator:
Anaheim Public Library

Extent:
1,802 items
1,800 online items

Repository:
Anaheim Public Library.
Central Library. History Room.

Anaheim, California 92805

Abstract: Anaheim Public Library's photograph collection includes images of historical interest of the City of Anaheim and other areas
of Orange County from the 1860s to 2002. Images document public, residential and commercial buildings, including businesses,
schools, churches, citrus packing houses, fire and police department facilities, theaters (such as the Fox Theater), and the
public library; street scenes; neighborhoods; significant individuals, including members of the Los Angeles Vineyard Society
which founded Anaheim in 1857 as a wine making colony, early mayors and civic leaders (such as August Langenberger and Charles
Pearson); groups and family portraits; annual events, such as the California Valencia Orange Show and the Anaheim Halloween
Parade; local geography, including the Santa Ana River, Anaheim Landing and local canyons; rancho families, such as Juan Pacifico
Ontiveros and Vicenta Sepulveda Yorba Carrillo; Mission San Juan Capistrano; viticulture and agriculture, including the Anaheim
chili peppers; transportation; ethnic communities, including Japanese Americans, Chinese Americans, etc.; natural disasters,
such as the 1933 Long Beach earthquake and the 1938 flood; Anaheim Resort area, including Edison International Field (also
known as the Big A), Anaheim Convention Center, Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim and Disneyland. Formats include panoramic and aerial
photographs. Of particular interest are the large number of photographs which document the development of the Los Angeles
Vineyard Society from circa 1860 to 1890. The collection also contains a small number of ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, and
tintypes from the 1870s and 1880s.

Property rights reside with the Anaheim Public Library. Literary rights are generally retained by the creators of the records
and their heirs. For permission to publish or to reproduce, please contact the Local History Curator.

Preferred Citation

Please use the following citation format for all items. Refer to a standard citation style, such as MLA, ALA or Turabian,
when identifying the individual item: [Item]. [Item number]. Anaheim Public Library, Anaheim, California.

Acquisition Information

This collection was created by Anaheim Public Library staff from 2001-2002 as part of the Digital Anaheim Digitization Project.

These 1,802 photographs were assembled from various photograph collections in the Anaheim Public Library's Local History Collection
which total over 16,000 items and digitized as part of a one-year project funded by the Library Services and Technology Act
(LSTA) from October 2001 through September 2002 in order to provide a single access point to primary graphic resources documenting
the history of the City of Anaheim. The Digital Anaheim Project was developed in collaboration with the Anaheim City School
District's local history curriculum building committee, and the images chosen to support the goals of the adopted curriculum.

Digitization was performed by Luna Imaging of Culver City, California.

Anaheim Public Library's photograph collection includes images of historical interest of the City of Anaheim and other areas
of Orange County from the 1860s to 2002. Images document public, residential and commercial buildings, including businesses,
schools, churches, citrus packing houses, fire and police department facilities, theaters (such as the Fox Theater), and the
public library; street scenes; neighborhoods; significant individuals, including members of the Los Angeles Vineyard Society
which founded Anaheim in 1857 as a wine making colony, early mayors and civic leaders (such as August Langenberger and Charles
Pearson); groups and family portraits; annual events, such as the California Valencia Orange Show and the Anaheim Halloween
Parade; local geography, including the Santa Ana River, Anaheim Landing and local canyons; rancho families, such as Juan Pacifico
Ontiveros and Vicenta Sepulveda Yorba Carrillo; Mission San Juan Capistrano; viticulture and agriculture, including the Anaheim
chili peppers; transportation; ethnic communities, including Japanese Americans, Chinese Americans, etc.; natural disasters,
such as the 1933 Long Beach earthquake and the 1938 flood; Anaheim Resort area, including Edison International Field (also
known as the Big A), Anaheim Convention Center, Arrowhead Pond of Anaheim and Disneyland. Formats include panoramic and aerial
photographs. Of particular interest are the large number of photographs which document the development of the Los Angeles
Vineyard Society from circa 1860 to 1890. The collection also contains a small number of ambrotypes, daguerreotypes, and
tintypes from the 1870s and 1880s.

The bulk of these photographs were taken by commercial photographers such as Judge James Howard and the Betzsold Photo Studio,
and include captions and dates.

Items were selected from a wide range of photographic collections housed in the Anaheim Public Library's Local History Collection,
particularly the Juenger-Howard Glass Plate Negative, Shades of Anaheim and Mother Colony Household Inc. collections. Unpublished
guides and a card file index to collections from which items were selected are available at the Anaheim Public Library's Anaheim
History Room. Some may also be found on the library online public access catalog. Consult the library for more information.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.